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Day of Common Learning 2016: Tracing Our Roots, Telling Our Stories: Racial Identity

*This guide was created to address topics related to SPU's 2016 Day of Common Learning and is no longer being updated.*

Definitions

There are many varied definitions when it comes to race, racial identity, and some of the terms that we hear quite frequently in current conversations surrounding race, diversity, and current social movements.

The Seattle Times recently published an accessible video project that sought to explore perspectives and variances of these definitions. 

Racial Identity

http://www.blackpast.org/about-us

BlackPast.org, an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet. These materials include an online encyclopedia of over 3,000 entries, the complete transcript of nearly 300 speeches by African Americans, other people of African ancestry, and those concerned about race, given between 1789 and 2012, over 140 full text primary documents, bibliographies, timelines and six gateway pages with links to digital archive collections, African and African American museums and research centers, genealogical research websites, and more than 200 other website resources on African American and global African history.

Theological Perspectives

For more titles, please browse the BT734.2 section in SPU's Library. 

Further Exploration

This quick-paced, carefully researched documentary traces Herskovits' development as a scholar to the shared African American and Jewish experiences of exile, exclusion and political oppression. Faced with resurgent racism and persistent discrimination in the early 20th century, black and Jewish intellectuals grappled with a common question: could they retain their distinct ethnic identities and still participate as equals in American life?

Philosophical Perspectives

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